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Day of Champions raises ?100,000.
The world's leading MotoGP riders joined forces with British motorcycle fans on Thursday to raise ?100,000 for the charity Riders for Health.
Kenny chases pole at Donington.
Team Telef?nica MoviStar Suzuki riders Kenny Roberts Jr and Sete Gibernau claimed second and twelfth places in today's first qualifying runs for Sunday's British GP.
Records fall in Donington qualifying.
Lap records tumbled during the opening day of qualifying for the British Grand Prix, but the achievement was overshadowed by falls of a different kind involving the pre-race MotoGP favourites.
Ukawa out for weekend, Rossi waits.
The Repsol Honda attack has been halved with just one day of the British Grand Prix meeting over, after Tohru Ukawa was ruled out of action following a heavy crash in Friday free practice.
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Donington's Day of Champions a success.
The now traditional 'Day of Champions' prelude to the Cinzano British Grand Prix took place at the Donington Park circuit yesterday, and crowds packed the Derbyshire racetrack in their thousands, despite heavy downpours late in the afternoon.
Ukawa, Rossi injured in MotoGP practice.
Repsol Honda duo Tohru Ukawa and Valentino Rossi headed the injury list after first free practice for the MotoGP class resulted in something of a crash fest.
Cobas: Donington never a good track for us.
The original Donington Park circuit was built in 1931 and hosted many big events, but has never been the happiest of hunting grounds for the West Honda Pons team.
British GP wild cards named.
The wild-card riders for this weekend's Cinzano British Grand Prix have been unveiled, with some of Britain's rising stars slated to ride at Donington Park on 14 July.
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London to give Rossi the red carpet treatment.
A movie-star welcome awaits the MotoGP World Champion as Rossi-mania arrives in London's Leicester Square on Tuesday afternoon, ahead of the Cinzano British Grand Prix.
Rossi baptises own rose.
Terra Nigra's bright yellow hybrid-T rose was baptised in Holland by the 500cc world champion of 2001 and six-times MotoGP race winner Valentino Rossi, as the Italian attended a party at Honda Netherlands in the VIP Village after Saturday's Gauloises Dutch TT in Assen.
Rossi takes sixth 2002 MotoGP win.
Valentino Rossi (Repsol Honda Team RCV211V) waited until the 16th lap of the 19-lap Dutch TT to take the lead and from that point on his supremacy was never in question, setting the fastest lap of the race and the new record with a time of 2m 00.973s.
Rossi wins but Barros is best.
Valentino Rossi's unstoppable march towards a second MotoGP World title took another step in Saturday's Dutch TT at Assen but the Italian star had some of his glory taken away following a truly heroic ride by Alex Barros on a two-stroke Honda.
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Walter Villa passes away.
Fifty eight year old Walter Villa died in Italy last from from a heart attack. Villa won three 250 and one 350cc World title for the Harley Davidson team. The American company bought the Italian Aermacchi team and re-badged their machines as Harleys.
Points for Ryo.
Team Suzuki's Akira Ryo got into the points at the seventh round of the MotoGP championship at Assen today, finishing 15th. Ryo has scored in every MotoGP race he has entered this year on the awesome new Suzuki GSV-R race bike.
Rain hands pole to Rossi in qualifying washout.
Valentino Rossi was virtually handed pole position today in the Gauloises Dutch TT taking place at Assen this weekend, as a couple of heavy downpours put paid to any other rider improving on the time he set in the first qualifying session yesterday.
Four-stroke MotoGP boom comes to historic Assen.
Four-stroke GP bikes return to Assen this weekend for the first time in almost three decades, with Honda's rampant RCV riders Valentino Rossi (Repsol Honda Team RCV211V) and Tohru Ukawa (Repsol Honda Team RCV211V) leading the charge.
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Hopkins rides fastest two-stroke Yamaha.
The two youngest riders in today's Moto GP session, Red Bull Yamaha's Hopkins and Hofmann, had a solid first qualifying aboard the fastest two stroke Yamahas.
Proton sets top speed at Assen.
Proton Team KR riders Jeremy McWilliams and Nobu Aoki qualified on the third and fourth rows of the provisional grid in today's first timed practice for Saturday's Dutch TT, with McWilliams also setting fastest top speed through the traps at the revised Assen, demonstrating the lightweight three
Wild card entries for the Gauloises Dutch TT.
The wild-card riders who will race in the Gauloises Dutch TT, scheduled at Assen on June 29th, are the following: MotoGP class: 33 - Akira Ryo (JPN-Suzuki)
Rocket men.
It looked more like an Elton John concert with so many wide rimmed glasses being worn. Although there was no piano or the man himself to entertain the guests at this very special celebration, his Rocket Man song or in this particular case Rocket Men, was the perfect anthem.
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New Assen starts Proton's build up to home run.
Next weekend's Dutch TT at the classic Assen circuit is the first of a run of special races for Proton Team KR - at tracks where the lightweight triple's greatest strengths will pay the biggest dividends.
Valentino Rossi to appear in Leicester Square.
World Champion Valentino Rossi invites you to his Ride-In London Premiere at Leicester Square in London on Tuesday 9 July at 15.00.
Is there no stopping Rossi?
Valentino Rossi took a convincing victory today in the Gran Primi Marlboro de Catalunya after battling hard with his Repsol Honda team mate and the Marlboro Yamaha's of Checa and Biaggi.
Marlboro Yamaha YZR- M1 scores first pole!
Marlboro Yamaha Team rider Max Biaggi gave the mighty YZR-M1 its first pole position at Catalunya today, crowning several weeks of flat-out work by the team and Yamaha's engineers. Team-mate Carlos Checa looked like joining Biaggi on the front row until he tumbled at the end of the session.
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